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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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